![]() He is a very clever swindler, who inherited his skills from his father who was also a swindler, he possesses great intelligence, he is very ingenious, analytical and a bit reckless, who only swindles other swindlers and therefore always lives on the run, however the death of his father gives another perspective to his ability and now he does not use it to get money but to fulfill his only goal: kill the man who killed his father and thus avenge his death, without caring to put his life in grave danger. This is why when they cross paths and realize that they have the same objective, they form a dangerous alliance full of lies and hidden motives. As it skates through double- and triple-crosses, The Swindlers shifts from real-world outrage to a payoff so tailor-made for the movie that it even teases a sequel.Hwang Ji Sung is a skilled swindler, whose life is affected by his father’s murder, discovering that the culprit is a world-class swindler who faked his death after a large-scale scam, he devises an ingenious and risky plan to avenge his father, However, Prosecutor Park Hee Soo is also behind the same scammer, his sole objective is to cover up a corruption scandal and murder him. But the action is less realistic and relies on flawless high-tech equipment and impossibly convincing disguises. The movie is grounded in real events, and it makes evocative use of authentic locations in Seoul, Incheon and Thailand. Everyone distrusts everyone else, and rightly so. Park and Hwang begin a shaky alliance, supported by three veteran grifters, including the requisite seductive beauty (Nana, a teen-pop star who grew up to star in the Korean-TV remake of The Good Wife). So would Hwang (Hyun Bin), a pretty-boy scam virtuoso who blames the criminal for the death of his father, a master forger. Their risk is managed by Park (played by Oldboy villain Yoo Ji-Tae), a corrupt prosecutor who’d like to see the fugitive dead. The fraud’s shadowy mastermind flees the country, leaving behind a lot of politically well-connected conspirators. The story begins with the devastation caused by a Ponzi scheme that, not so unusually for South Korea, involves a bogus religion. Except that director Jang Chang-won depicts a scandal that reaches all the way to a leading presidential candidate, an audacious premise for a movie set in South Korea, whose top elected official was ousted for corruption just months ago. With its jazz-funk score and trust-no-one scenario, The Swindlers is an entertaining if mostly routine con-game thriller. ![]()
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